The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn't just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one.
A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you're prepared to take the risk of trying them out.
Singing aloud leaves you with a sense of levity and contentedness.
I'm often accused of being ahead of my time, but it's simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.
The dominant theory coming out of Hollywood is that peoples' attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and they need more stimulation.
I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future.
By the mid-'60s, recorded music was much more like painting than it was like traditional music. When you went into the studio, you could put a sound down, then you could squeeze it around, spread it all around the canvas.
